Getting outdoors in Florida – Page 16

Florida Botanical Gardens

Walk through the garden gates into a wonderland of sensory stimulation. With nearly 180 acres in the heart of Largo, the Florida Botanical Gardens is a place for peaceful immersion.

Florida Caverns State Park

A dip into Florida’s only show cave brings on an instant sense of cool. But the cave tour isn't the only delight you'll find at Florida Caverns State Park.

Florida’s Labyrinths

Florida has an estimated 132 labyrinths waiting to be walked – from a neighborhood park in Pensacola in the Panhandle to one at a church in the Florida Keys.

Forest Capital Museum State Park

Perry 0.2 miles

To learn about the storied past of the forestry industry in Florida, stop in the Forest Capital Museum State Park, where one of the highlights is a pioneer homestead.

Fort Barrancas

Pensacola 2.2 miles

Part of the Third System of coastal defenses built in the 1840s by the Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Barrancas is the showy centerpiece of a National Park unit inside Naval Air Station Pensacola.

At the site of the original French settlement in Florida, explore the rich natural and cultural history of the region at the Timucuan Preserve visitor center, Fort Caroline, and its interpretive nature trail.

Fort Clinch Beach Walk

Fernandina Beach 4.8 miles

Explore a wave-tossed beach shoreline while searching for sea shells along the northernmost stretch of the Atlantic Coast in Florida.

Fort Clinch State Park

With 1,100 acres of pristine beaches, towering dunes, maritime forest, and estuarine tidal marshes, Fort Clinch State Park is one of Florida’s paramount recreational areas.

Fort Clinch Walking Tour

Fernandina Beach 0.6 miles

Roam an impressive, interpreted Third System fortress on the Florida coast along this walking tour that makes a circuit of the interior of Fort Clinch.

Fort Cooper State Park

Protecting woodlands and marshes around Lake Holathlikaha, Fort Cooper State Park preserves an important chapter of the Second Seminole War. An annual re-enactment relives the battle.

Fort Foster State Historic Site

Thonotosassa 1.0 miles

Part of Hillsborough River State Park, Fort Foster State Historic Site takes you back to the era of Florida's earliest pioneer settlers and their clashes with the native Seminoles.

Fort George Island Cultural State Park

With layer upon layer of human habitation atop the highest natural hill on the southeastern Atlantic Coast, Fort George Island offers a long look at the past.